Chicken, Polenta, Roasted Red Peppers & Goat Cheese

Chicken, Polenta, Roasted Red Peppers & Goat Cheese- spinach, onions & garlic too

One of my favorite quick dinners using Roasted Red Peppers is to serve them with fried polenta, chicken and veggies. I use my homemade roasted red bell peppers from my previous blog.  I cook with ALOT of onions this time of year, they are super low in pesticides and good for your immune system.

To start, cover a large skillet with organic olive oil. I recomend med to low or medium at most. Add a clove of fresh chopped garlic, sweat garlic for about a minute and then add 4-6 strips of organic free range, or locally farmed chicken breast. Cook until lightly browned, and no longer pink in the middle. Then, add 4-6 1/4" slices of organic polenta from tube. Push chicken to outer edges of pan. If you need too, put a little more olive oil in.  You want your pan well coated or your polenta will stick and make a mess. Cook until outside crisps a bit, then flip over and cook the other side. This won't take long, about 3-5 minutes total.

It is a bit tricky to cook everything all in one pan, if you prefer, you can cook veggies in a seperate pan. I like to cook it all in one for easy clean up.  After your chicken and polenta has cooked, add onions (half a large Vidalia onion) and roasted red peppers (2 peppers) to pan. If you have fresh basil on hand, tear 3 leaves into pieces and add to the pan. . Stir veggies carefully and cook for about 3 minutes. Then, cover pan with enough spinach to top everything (about 2 handfuls), cover with a lid, reduce heat to low or very low. You are wilting the spinach with the heat from the pan. Keep an eye on the spinach, the process takes a minute or 2. When spinach wilts, transfer everything from pan to a large dish. Top with 6-8 slices of fresh goat cheese from a tube. Ingredients should still be hot enough to warm the goat cheese, if not cover with a lid to soften the goat cheese. Once this is complete, serve & eat. Makes 2 large serving, could easily split into 4 small servings.

Healthy Note: It is NOT necessary to buy organic onions. Onions contain very low amounts of pesticides, because very few pest like onions.

Here is a link to a wonderful list on highest & lowest pesticide treated foods.

http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/